Etna, red alert in Catania for the new eruption: part of the crater collapses, high kilometers high cloud

For kilometers and kilometers Etna has issued a huge cloud of smoke, gas and ash. There is no danger for the inhabited centers because the eruptive activity is at very high altitude, between 2800 and 2900 meters. The air traffic of the Vincenzo Bellini airport of Catania is also regular, despite the red alert of practice (more for the wind than for the clouds).

Smoke Ress From The Crater of the Etna Volcano As it Erupts, on Mount Etna Near Catania on June 2, 2025. (Photo by Giuseppe Distefano / Afp) (Photo by Giuseppe Distano / Afp via Getty Images)Giuseppe Distefano/Getty Images

Strombolian explosions continue with strong intensitywarned by the municipalities at the foot of Etna but not such as to cause danger, which occurred around 3 and 50 with gradual increase up to the collapse of the material at 11 and 24.

Topshot Smoke Ress From The Crater of the Etna Volcano As it Erupts on Mount Etna Near Catania on June 2 2025.
Topshot – Smoke Ress From The Crater of the Etna Volcano As it Erupts, on Mount Etna Near Catania on June 2, 2025. (Photo by Giuseppe Distefano / AFP) (Photo by Giuseppe Distefano / Afp via Getty Images)Giuseppe Distefano/Getty Images

The volcano in fact saw The collapse of material in the northern side of the South-East crater which generated lava fountains with rather high tremors and, From a seismic point of view, with a tendency to increase. The lava flows are modest in the direction of the Bove Valley, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Etna Observatory), and should not exceed the edge of the Leone Valley.

Source: Vanity Fair

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